text: * 1983 - I. I. Rabi
  * 1984 - David W. Allan
  * 1985 - Norman Ramsey, Nobel Prize in 1989
  * 1986 - Jerrold R. Zacharias
  * 1987 - Louis Essen
  * 1988 - Gernot M. R. Winkler
  * 1989 - Leonard S. Cutler
  * 1990 - Claude Audoin
  * 1991 - Andrea De Marchi
  * 1992 - James A. Barnes
  * 1993 - Robert F. C. Vessot
  * 1994 - Jacques Vanier
  * 1995 - Fred L. Walls
  * 1996 - Andre Clairon and Robert E. Drullinger
  * 1997 - Harry E. Peters and Nikolai A. Demidov
  * 1998 - David J. Wineland, Nobel Prize in 2012
  * 1999 - Bernard Guinot
  * 2000 - William J. Riley Jr.
  * 2001 - Lute Maleki
  * 2002 - Jon H. Shirley
  * 2003 - Andreas Bauch
  * 2005 - Theodor W. Hänsch, Nobel Prize in 2005
  * 2004 - John L. Hall, Nobel Prize in 2005
  * 2006 - James C. Bergquist
  * 2007 - Patrick Gill and Leo Hollberg
  * 2008 - Hidetoshi Katori
  * 2009 - John D. Prestage
  * 2010 - Long Sheng Ma
  * 2011 - Fritz Riehle
  * 2012 - James Camparo
  * 2013 - Judah Levine
  * 2014 - Harald R. Telle
  * 2015 - Ulrich_L._Rohde
  * 2016 - John Kitching
  * 2017 - Scott Diddams
  * 2018 - Jun Ye
  * 2019 - Steven Jefferts 
  * 2020 - Robert Lutwak
  * 2021 - Ekkehard Peik